Xu Qing quietly descended the mountain. He chose not to fly, but instead walked through the moonlight back toward Seven Blood Eyes. He felt very strange inside after everything that had just happened. Given how much he had grown up in the past few years, it wasn’t often that he felt so deeply shaken in this way. It was uncomfortable, and he wasn’t used to it.0

As he walked, he started mentally reviewing his old medicinal codex. As the names and information of various medicinal plants passed through his mind, he slowly calmed down. His expression was the same as ever as he started walking faster and faster.13

Eventually he reached his berth, where he stood on the shore and looked back in the direction of the Dark Serenity Sect. He felt both suspicious and vigilant. Arch-Immortal Plumdark’s flirty behavior wasn’t what he was focused on; he wasn’t the ignorant child he had once been. He just refused to believe that someone with a cultivation base as high as hers would be so banal. There had to be more to her actions. After all... in this world, people didn’t just blindly fall in love at first sight. There were always reasons behind everything.16

Unfortunately, he just couldn’t fathom what was really going on. Waving his hand, he produced his dharmaskiff, stepped aboard and into...1